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enhttp://wvasfm.org/feeds/3935/rss.xmlVegetables Likely To Take More Of Your Plate in 2016http://wvasfm.org/post/vegetables-likely-take-more-your-plate-2016
About a decade ago, food writer Michael Pollan issued a call to action: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. As 2016 opens, it looks like many American cooks and diners are heeding that call.<p>Vegetables have moved from the side to the center of the plate. And as another year begins, it appears that plants are the new meat.<p>Bon Appetit magazine named AL's Place in San Francisco the best new restaurant of 2015.Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:25:00 +0000Bonny Wolf77275 at http://wvasfm.orgVegetables Likely To Take More Of Your Plate in 2016Don't Mess With My Stuffing: Thanksgiving's Most Hotly Debated Dishhttp://wvasfm.org/post/dont-mess-my-stuffing-thanksgivings-most-hotly-debated-dish
Every day of the year is a good time to experiment with new recipes. Except, arguably, one.<p>Thanksgiving is when Grandpa's grease-spattered gravy recipe is pulled from the file and your mother-in-law makes the sweet, sticky pecan pie her grandchildren expect.Sun, 22 Nov 2015 12:37:00 +0000Bonny Wolf75479 at http://wvasfm.orgDon't Mess With My Stuffing: Thanksgiving's Most Hotly Debated DishIs It Time To Write Off Restaurant Tipping?http://wvasfm.org/post/it-time-write-restaurant-tipping
<div class="fullattribution">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.<img src="http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Is+It+Time+To+Write+Off+Restaurant+Tipping%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDA5MTYwMDQ1MDEzMzE1ODcyMjRmY2FlMA004)"/></div><p>Transcript <p>RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: <p>American restaurants have been talking about getting rid of tipping for years. Only if a few have taken the leap. Now a major New York City restaurant group has announced a no-tip policy.Sun, 25 Oct 2015 11:47:00 +0000Bonny Wolf74100 at http://wvasfm.orgNocturnal Nosh: Americans Get A Taste Of Night Marketshttp://wvasfm.org/post/nocturnal-nosh-americans-get-taste-night-markets
Many American towns put the "Closed" sign up by 6 p.m. But night markets are drawing people out in Minnesota, Oklahoma and Virginia, with food, art and music from the local community.<p>The model for the nocturnal markets is the Asian night market, where people eat, shop and socialize and tourists discover delicacies like live scorpions and roasted sea horse until the wee hours of the morning.<p><a href="http://thefoodtrust.org/night-market">Night Market Philadelphia</a>, a roving festival, attracts 25,000 people to diverse city neighborhoods after dark.Sun, 14 Jun 2015 09:43:00 +0000Bonny Wolf67466 at http://wvasfm.orgNocturnal Nosh: Americans Get A Taste Of Night MarketsA Cuppa Matcha With Your Crickets? On The Menu In 2015http://wvasfm.org/post/cuppa-matcha-your-crickets-menu-2015
It's time to set the table for 2015. What will be the next kale? Has the cupcake breathed its last?<p>We're headed for high times. As states legalize marijuana, cannabis comestibles are coming. Pot brownies — so 1960s — are joined by marijuana mac 'n' cheese and pot pesto. There's a new cooking show called <em>Bong Appetit</em>.<p>Another crushed leaf is this year's superdrink. Matcha is made from green tea and promises a calmer energy boost than Red Bull.Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:40:00 +0000Bonny Wolf59443 at http://wvasfm.orgFighting (Tasty) Invasive Fish With Forks And Knives http://wvasfm.org/post/fighting-tasty-invasive-fish-forks-and-knives
Add kitchen knives to the list of weapons that humans are using to fight invasive species. I'm talking about fish who've made their way into nonnative waters.<p>How do they get here? Sometimes they catch a ride in the ballast water of ships. Or they're imported as live food or dumped out of aquariums. Once here, they can wipe out native fish, trash the ecosystem and wreck the beach business.<p>Take the <a href="http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/snakehead.shtml">northern snakehead</a>, which has made its way into tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.Sun, 17 Aug 2014 09:25:00 +0000Bonny Wolf53172 at http://wvasfm.orgFighting (Tasty) Invasive Fish With Forks And Knives The Milkman's Comeback Means Dairy At The Door And Morehttp://wvasfm.org/post/milkmans-comeback-means-dairy-door-and-more
You don't even have to get out of your PJs to go to the farmers market now.<p>All over the country, trucks are now delivering fresh milk, organic vegetables and humanely raised chickens to your door — though in New York, the deliveries come by bike.<p>Fifty years ago, about 30 percent of milk still came from the milkman.Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:15:00 +0000Bonny Wolf49778 at http://wvasfm.orgThe Milkman's Comeback Means Dairy At The Door And MoreEating Tea And Other Food Predictions For 2014http://wvasfm.org/post/eating-tea-and-other-food-predictions-2014
At the beginning of every year, we read the tea leaves to see what new food trends we'll be tasting in the coming months. This year, the tea itself is the trend.<p>Tea leaves will be big in entrees, desserts and, of course, cocktails. Starbucks has opened its first tea shop.<p>We won't be just drinking tea; Artisan distilling keeps on growing. This could be the year of gin, made with local botanicals as well as the traditional juniper berry.<p>New — but still ancient — grains will join the now-common spelt and quinoa.Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:31:00 +0000Bonny Wolf40701 at http://wvasfm.orgEating Tea And Other Food Predictions For 2014Why You Shouldn't Wrinkle Your Nose At Fermentationhttp://wvasfm.org/post/why-you-shouldnt-wrinkle-your-nose-fermentation
<em>It's delicious, it's nutritious and it's basically rotten. Fermentation is a hot culinary trend, and, as </em>Weekend Edition<em><em> food commentator Bonny Wolf explains, </em></em><em> the preservation process gives food a flavor unique to time and place.</em><p>People you know may intentionally be growing bacteria in their homes — on food, outside the refrigerator. And they are doing it to make food safe, and nutritious.<p>They are doing what cooks have always done: fermenting food.<p>For decades, we have fought against bacteria in our food.Sun, 07 Apr 2013 08:57:00 +0000Bonny Wolf25798 at http://wvasfm.orgWhy You Shouldn't Wrinkle Your Nose At FermentationOysters Rebound In Popularity With Man-Made Bountyhttp://wvasfm.org/post/oysters-rebound-popularity-man-made-bounty
<em>In Colonial Virginia, oysters were plentiful; Capt. John Smith said they lay "thick as stones." But as the wild oyster harvest has shrunk,</em> Weekend Edition<em> food commentator Bonny Wolf says the market for farm-raised oysters is booming.</em><p>The local food movement is expanding from fertile fields to brackish waters.<p>Along the rivers and bays of the East Coast, where wild oysters have been decimated by man and nature, harvests of farm-raised oysters are increasing by double digits every year.Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:37:00 +0000Bonny Wolf21929 at http://wvasfm.orgOysters Rebound In Popularity With Man-Made Bounty